Portland's Willamette, Once Heavily Polluted, Now Home To A Swim Team
Crossing Portland’s Hawthorne Bridge around sunrise this summer, you might spot something slicing through the water below: dozens of swimmers in matching green swim caps. A group called the River Huggers has been swimming the Willamette three times a ...
Magazine demotes Portland to nation’s #4 bike city after NYC, Chicago, Minneapolis
Dirk VanderHart of the Portland Mercury broke the news this afternoon after checking his mailbox: in Bicycling magazine’s periodic ranking of the country’s best bike cities, Portland has plummeted from first to fourth since 2012. Bicycling named ...
